The story of Sarah and Hagar has been treated as one of the foundational stories for the nation of Israel. Yet, Paul, in one deft allegory, will attempt to overturn centuries of theological and historical interpretation. Against other interpretations, I argue that Paul’s untraditional uniting of Hagar, Sinai, and the present Jerusalem together was accomplished through the interpretive key provided in 4:23: the one who comes from a slave has been born because of the flesh, and the one who comes from a free woman has been born through the promise. Paul no longer reads the story of Sarah and Hagar through a lens of separation based on physical realities, but rather through the lens of promise and flesh, as helpfully stated in 4:23. Ishmael was not “cast out” because of his sinfulness or supposed ethnic deficiencies, but rather because he was born “κατὰ σάρκα” and not “δι᾽ ἐπαγγελίας.” These comparative realities are not introduced here in the allegory for the first time; rather, Paul has been building these comparisons as his primary argument since the foundational 2:15-21. This dissertation, therefore, not only interprets the allegory in consideration of the lens of 4:23, but seeks to set the argument within both the thematic and schematic content of Galatians. While the first chapter summarizes and categorizes the typical interpretations of the difficult Galatians 4:21-5:1, the second chapter seeks to critique these approaches to the allegory. The value of applying Paul’s interpretive lens (Gal 4:23) to the allegory is argued for in the third chapter. By using the hermeneutical lens of 4:23, many of the allegory’s difficulties are eased, and the meaning and import of the allegory is clarified. The fourth chapter seeks to set the allegory within the epistle, both thematically and schematically, centering the main propositio around Paul’s remarks to Peter in Galatians 2:15-21. Finally, the last chapter looks at some limited applications of the thesis to OT hermeneutics, specifically in literal and allegorical readings of the Sarah/Hagar incident.

Sarah Kane has often been categorized as an “In-Yer-Face” playwright, part of a group of contemporary British playwrights interested in making audiences feel the outcome of violence. However, Kane’s plays have also arguably challenged many existing theatrical forms, including the late twentieth century resurgence of “Angry Young Men” plays. While critics have been quick to identify madness as a main theme of her work, few have connected each play’s complex construction of madness with a struggle to complicate existing theatrical form. Through an intersectionally feminist reading of three of her plays—Blasted, Crave, and 4.48 Psychosis—this thesis examines the connection between the rejection of normative disability tropes (or madness, more specifically) and the challenging construction of theatrical form that takes place within each of these Kane plays.

Cette thèse analyse comment le déplacement, autant géographique qu’ontologique, est mis en scène dans trois recueils de poésie issus de la francophonie canadienne, soit La Voyageuse d’Andrée Lacelle, Rues étrangères de Sarah Marylou Brideau et Poste restante : cartes poétiques du Sénégal de Lise Gaboury-Diallo. Le premier chapitre explore comment l’ici est construit poétiquement au sein des trois recueils et comment celui-ci diffère, ou non, de l’ici réel de la communauté d’appartenance de la poète. Le deuxième chapitre examine comment les personnages-poètes transitent de l’ici vers l’ailleurs; j’y étudie comment cet espace transitoire et le voyage dans l’entre-deux sont représentés. Je tente aussi de déterminer si le voyage physique va de pair avec un cheminement psychologique. Enfin, le troisième chapitre porte sur les diverses rencontres avec l’altérité qui découlent des voyages. Je montre qu’elles permettent aux personnages-poètes de redéfinir leur identité et de se (re)constituer un soi qui leur est propre.

I den här c-uppsatsen undersöker vi hur personal inom LSS-boende ser på sin anmälningsskyldighet och vad som inverkar på personalens arbete med att skriva avvikelser och lex Sarah anmälningar. Personal inom LSS-verksamheten måste förhålla sig till de riktlinjer och regler som LSS-lagen säger. Däremot är LSS-lagen komplex och inte tydlig om vad som kan ses som ett missförhållande och detta kan leda till svårigheter för personal i sitt arbete att skriva avvikelser och lex Sarah anmälningar. För att besvara vår studies syfte och frågeställningar har vi använt oss av en kvalitativ forskningsansats med semistrukturerade intervjuer. För att analysera empirin har de teoretiska begreppen handlingsutrymme, kunskap, interaktion mellan individer och Lipskys teoretiska begrepp om gräsrotsbyråkrater använts. Resultatet av studien visar att LSS-personal är införstådda i sin anmälningsskyldighet och att de har kunskap om vad en avvikelse och lex Sarah anmälan är. Däremot fanns det en osäkerhet hos LSS-personalen vart gränsen går mellan en avvikelse och lex Sarah anmälan pga. att det saknas kunskap och att LSS-lagen är komplex. LSS-personalen belyser att det finns både möjligheter och svårigheter med att skriva avvikelser och lex Sarah anmälningar i deras arbete. De möjligheter och svårigheter personalen nämner är kunskap och utbildning, stöd från ledning och arbetskollegor, relationen till chefen och arbetskollegor, personalens normer och värderingar, resurser och kvalitetssäkra verksamheten. / In our bachelor essay we research about how professionals in LSS-residents look at their obligation to give notice on what impact on the professional’s work with writing deviations and lex Sarah reports. Professionals´ who work within LSS-residents must adhere to the guidelines and rules that the LSS-law say. However, the LSS-law is complex and not obvious what can be seen as a bad condition and this can lead to difficulties for staff in their work to write deviations and lex Sarah reports.In order to answer the research questions of and issue we have used qualitative research method with semi structured interviews. To analyze the empirical material, the theoretical concepts acting space, knowledge, interaction between individuals and Lipsky´s theoretical concepts about the street-level bureaucracy have been used. The result of the study shows that professionals´ who work within LSS-residents are aware of their obligation to report and that they have knowledge of what a deviation and lex Sarah report is. However, there was an uncertainty among the professionals´ who work within LSS-residents where the limit goes between a deviation and lex Sarah report due to that there is no knowledge and that the LSS-law is complex. Professionals´ who work within LSS-residents highlights that there are both opportunities and difficulties in writing deviations and lex Sarah reports in their work. The opportunities and difficulties the staff reported on are knowledge and education, support from management and work colleagues, the relationship with the manager and work colleagues, the staff's norms and values, resources and quality assure the work.

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Located at the intersection of literary, journalistic, and socio-historical discourses, “Writing Scenes and Telling Time” looks at diaristic texts in post-war German literature through the lens of news reporting and mass media. Since the 1970s, diaristic texts in German emerged across genres in the works of canonical authors. These works are widely read as subjective texts and linked to their authors’ supposedly diaristic interest in introspection and self-expression. However, these texts’ orientation towards the outside world and their interest in the temporality and scene of writing does not fit into this existing narrative. This dissertation looks at four decades worth of journal texts by Peter Handke, Sarah Kirsch, Jürgen Becker, and Rainald Goetz. Considering these texts between the poles of diary and news(papers), “Writing Scenes and Telling Time” argues that the modes of writing that emerged must be read as a new genre. Looking at novels, poetry, prose, blogs, and epics, “Writing Scenes and Telling Time” analyses writing as the site of narrative experiments that resulted in new attempts to define literary categories. “Writing Scenes and Telling Time” establishes links between the accelerating and alienating effects of mass media and the narratological impact of journalistic reporting on literary writing. The project takes reporting and the report as its methodological cornerstones and looks at the journal’s conception of scene, time, image, narrative, and writing through the lens of contemporary literary theory. My project situates itself within the temporal turn and contributes to recent studies on literature and time. The three chapters of this dissertation trace different modes of journal writing emerging since the early 1970s. Chapter I investigates how the texts of Jürgen Becker focus on the temporality of short-term memory and its implications for a new definition of plot. Chapter II traces journal writing in Sarah Kirsch’s poetry and prose and the way in which it focalizes settings of spatio-temporal liminality. Chapter III looks at the works of Peter Handke and their focus on the temporal simultaneity of writing and its relation to the surrounding scene. My conclusion revisits these modes through the lens of 2000s journal writing in the works of Rainald Goetz. “Writing Scenes and Telling Time” suggests that these texts’ very rigid repudiation of mass media and journalistic reporting lies at odds with the extraordinary phenomenological influence both have on the conceptions of writing contained in them. This dissertation, therefore, intervenes in a literary history of the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s by challenging common center/periphery binaries that imply an author’s supposed degree of (non)involvement with the modern world. It expands existing theories on diaristic writing, looking at journal writing as a specific genre that transcends existing categories. “Writing Scenes and Telling Time” concludes that a broad range of supposedly diaristic texts from the German post-war era must be reconceived with regards to their genre status. Through its focus on writing, this dissertation ultimately aims at establishing journal writing as a new theory of genre.

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In Dunnet Landing, Jewett creates a feminine world that is characterized by its depth and its moral and emotional significance. There is a foundation in the real world of human feeling, and while there is much grief and sorrow in this community, there are also possibilities for happiness. The connection to death and loss is what gives much in this feminine world meaning. Grief is only a part of the journey. Out of death and sorrow come strength and a restoration to wholeness. Mrs. Todd has learned this and she passes her knowledge down to the narrator. The narrator’s journey is a return to a simpler, older way of life. It is a return to the mother, but it is also a return to self, an inversion of a trip to the frontier. The narrator’s connection to Mrs. Todd and Mrs. Blackett helps her to reconnect with and restore herself.

This thesis uses content analysis to compare two conservative Christian feminist publications: Daughters of Sarah, produced by neo-evangelical feminists, and Exponent II, produced by Mormon feminists. Findings are based on insights from three main theories: Debra Minkoff's organization-environment perspective, Nancy Folbre's model of collective action based on structures of constraint, and the church-sect typology from the sociology of religion literature. Although both organizations similarly endeavor to integrate feminist and religious identities, the loose boundaries of evangelicalism allow Daughters of Sarah to explore a more liberal feminist agenda and interact with broader feminist sources while still remaining within the broad domain of evangelicalism. In contrast, the strict organizational boundaries of Mormonism tightly constrain Exponent II's feminist discourse and agenda. While focusing on how religious environments serve as dominant sources of opportunity and constraint for associated organizations, this study also highlights the complexity involved in the construction of christian feminist identities.